12 Jul 1941
- Werner Mölders reported that under his command JG 51 had destroyed 500 Soviet aircraft at the cost of only three casualties during the first 20 days of Operation Barbarossa. ww2dbase [Werner Mölders | CPC]
- 1st US Marine Brigade completed taking over the occupation of Iceland from British troops. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Maggiore Baracca set sail for Bordeaux, France at 0200 hours. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]
- Alessandro Malaspina was ordered to move to a new patrol area in the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [Alessandro Malaspina | CPC]
- Douglas Bader shot down a German Bf 109 fighter and damaged three others over Pas-de-Calais, France. ww2dbase [Douglas Bader | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | CPC]
- French Lieutenant-General Joseph-Antoine-Sylvain-Raoul de Verdillac attended the French-British negotiations for a ceasefire in the French Mandate of Syria and the Lebanon. Making progress in the discussions during the day, the process to draft the Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre began at 2200 hours near Acre, British Mandate of Palestine. Meanwhile, French naval vessels and aircraft were ordered to go to neutral Turkey, where they were interned. ww2dbase [Campaigns in the Middle East | CPC]
- Four days after the Soviet military mission arrived in London, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed an agreement of mutual assistance, noting that neither country would negotiate a separate peace with the Axis powers. ww2dbase [London, England | TH]
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